Thanks for commenting!
Yes, earn... that has been my plan for the past 10 years. I have done nothing but earn, more and more and more. That's the problem, though. If the token you're earning doesn't do well, you lose all your current and past earnings. My entire 10 years has now been reduced to under 2000 USD worth, and I've never spend anything or converted to fiat. If I want to earn with Blurt payouts and spend them on "real world shit I need", I first have to have 2 things. One, a way to convert BLURT to real world things, and currently that's just a pipe dream. And two, enough payouts to make it possible. At the current price of Blurt, I'm able to dish out about 1 USD in upvotes per day, if I stay on the chain and vote every 2.4 hours to maximize rewards. All my earnings equate to the power to generate one dollar per day. That was close to $50 back when HIVE spiked up last November, before I got nuked to zero by the Hive cabal. I can dish out a dollar a day, wherever I deem fit, even my own comments! I tend not to vote my own comments, though. I'd prefer other people curating my content, and I'd prefer to curate theirs. Curing your own content is pointless and cannabalistic. Sadly, my friends and followers here on Blurt don't have much money. Most of them are giving me tiny upvotes (often not even at 100%) while I'm giving them 25+ BLURT each with my larger stake. I'm the big curator... and also the big content-creator. I put out a lot, and get little in return. It was like that on Hive, too. As I got bigger, I got less and less support from others, and was basically just giving out a ton of upvotes and support to everybody else. Everybody powered down and took profits, while I kept the currency afloat by holding on. When I finally tried to make a withdrawal I was nuked.
So yeah, earn. I have been doing that for 10 years and look where it has got me. Do you have any more specific advice, other than to earn? Because I have shown that it doesn't always work, even if you put in nonstop effort for many years.